About Evidence Action
Evidence Action aims to be a world leader in scaling evidence-based and cost-effective programs to reduce the burden of poverty for hundreds of millions of people in the poorest places. Last year Deworm the World reached 280 million people with deworming medications, partnering with governments to launch, scale, and sustain mass school-based deworming programs, including in India. Meanwhile, Dispensers for Safe Water provided 4M people across rural Africa with clean water, saving thousands of young lives. The approach relies on an innovative and human-centric design to deliver clean water at the source. These serve as just two examples of the work Evidence Action is undertaking.
In addition to running these scaled programs, Evidence Action leverages its unique Accelerator to develop the next generation of programs. These programs are rigorously tested to ensure exceptional scale, cost-effectiveness, and clear evidence of impact. In 2019 we launched an ambitious new strategy, intending to double our impact over the next five years, with much of that impact coming from new programs identified and scaled through the Accelerator. Evidence Action has a presence across 7 countries, with major offices in Nairobi, Kenya; Delhi, India; and Washington, D.C. Evidence Action’s programs have been recognized by GiveWell, the Skoll Foundation, the Life You Can Save, Giving What We Can, and covered in the Economist, NPR, and the New York Times.
In India, Evidence Action’s technical partner EAII Advisors provides technical assistance to select state government’s ministries of health, education, and women and child development to implement the school and Anganwadi based National Deworming Day program and Iron and Folic Acid (IFA) supplementation program to improve children’s health, education, and long-term development. In the long term EAII Advisors aims to expand to provide technical support to more state governments and on other public health & nutrition issues too.
The India program invites applications for the position of Deputy Director-Monitoring, Learning & Evaluation (DD-MLE) to be based at the Delhi office.
About the Position:
The DD-MLE will report to the Director- Monitoring, Learning & Evaluation. The DD-MLE is management level position of Evidence Action India program. DD-MLE is responsible for a range of organizational learning and development efforts, including advancing and strengthening the organization’s research, monitoring and evaluation work to inform program strategy. DD- MLE role is integral to increasing the priority of and capacity for research, monitoring and evaluation within organization. DD-MLE ensures designing new area of research, its implementation, higher level of analytics and documentation for program decision making and improvement.DD-MLE will manage skilled team and collaborate closely with other teams to achieve quality MLE outcomes. DD-MLE must possess a sense of collaboration and mutual understanding and a willingness to assist colleagues.
Responsibilities:
Technical Delivery
- Oversee and guide the monitoring, learning and evaluation initiatives of the organisation and work towards delivery of high quality, timely data/information for decision making.
- Lead the development of result based MLE strategy, framework, key program performance indicators, oversee execution and recommend data driven corrective action.
- Provide technical capabilities, skills and data related resources across the programs in a matrixed structure.
- Identify and recommend new areas for research and operations research in line with Evidence Action global priorities and India program needs.
- Coordinate with global Evidence Action team to ensure M&E strategies are consistent and aligned with global and cross-country priorities.
- Spearhead scientific publications in peer reviewed journal and reports for information dissemination.
- Set and maintain minimum standards of rigour, data quality and related best practices within the India program.
- Stay current on technical knowledge, including WHO and national guidelines for helminth control, Iron Folic
- supplementation and latest research and publications, and share latest developments with others team/s.
Program Management
- Ensure the leadership team and other teams have access to timely, useful and accurate data for ongoing program and performance management and assessments.
- Ensure that donors, partner and management queries are addressed in accurate and timely manner.
- Support India program outreach and learning efforts by prioritizing and tracking critical information.
- Support the country program to use data and evidences /information for strategic engagement with policymakers in governments and donors, including collaboration with global team.
- Guide MLE team in annual program planning and budgeting process and support and collaborate with other teams as necessary.
- Support program goals on institutionalisation of deworming and IFA supplementation program and partnership with governments at state and national level through effective information, data sharing and technical expertise.
- Provide inputs and oversee development of technological platforms of the organization
- Actively promote the synthesis and sharing data/information across programs, and generate readily available information for reporting to donors and governments and other stakeholders as required.
- Develop and manage partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Attend meetings with donors, national level partners including Government of India and other technical agencies and represent organisation in meeting, conferences and other events.
- Should be willing to travel at least 20% of the time.
Personnel and Team management
- Identify human resource needs of the team and support HR team in recruitment of staffs and consultants as necessary.
- Identify MLE related learning and training opportunities for staffs.
- Mentor and coach the MLE team members through timely and quality input, supervision and support for enhanced team performance.
Organizational Culture
- Upholds the values of Evidence Action.
- Actively contributes to making an equitable workplace through inclusive practice and openness to different perspectives, cultures and ideas.
- Maintains behavior and conduct that uphold the highest standards for safeguarding, professionally and personally.